Legal Notice & Privacy Policy

Information pursuant to Section 5 of the German Digital Services Act (DDG) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Legal Notice (Impressum pursuant to § 5 DDG)

Operator of this website:
Sami Khaddam
Civil Engineer / Bauingenieur
Hamburg, Germany
Direct Contact: LinkedIn Profile

Non-Commercial Portfolio Disclaimer

This website is a purely private, non-commercial personal portfolio operated for the purpose of career presentation, professional networking, and displaying academic and career milestones. No commercial contracts, paid engineering services, or commercial transactions are offered or concluded through this website (exempt from commercial disclosure obligations under § 5 DDG / § 18 MStV).

Professional Qualification

Job Title: Civil Engineer / Bauingenieur.
Professional title awarded in accordance with applicable engineering statutes.

Liability for Content & External Links

As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages under general German law (§ 7 (1) DDG). We are not obligated to monitor transmitted or stored external information or investigate circumstances indicating illegal activity (§§ 8 to 10 DDG). Our website contains links to external websites of third parties (e.g. LinkedIn, Xing), on whose contents we have no influence.

Copyright

The content and works created on these pages are subject to German copyright law. Duplication, processing, distribution, or any form of commercialization beyond the scope of copyright law requires prior written consent.

2. Privacy Policy (Datenschutzerklärung according to GDPR)

The protection of your personal data is paramount. This website is intentionally engineered for maximum privacy:

  • Zero Cookies & Zero Tracking: We do not use tracking cookies, analytics services (no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel), or profiling tools.
  • Self-Hosted Local Fonts: All typography (Roboto font files) is served locally from our static server. No IP address is ever transferred to Google Fonts servers.
  • 2-Click Privacy Map: Maps are decoupled via a privacy-compliant static preview. No data is transmitted to Google Maps unless you voluntarily choose to open the external map link.
  • Hosting & Content Delivery: Hosted on Cloudflare Pages (Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). When you visit, Cloudflare automatically processes standard server connection logs (IP address, HTTP request headers, time) strictly for security and website delivery under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
  • Your Rights: Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of your personal data, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information).